samba - May 1999 - Problem finding Server on Win95 and Win98

Hi,

today I encountered a strange problem. In our office we have a small and
simple network. On our one and only server, I installed Linux 2.2.5 and
Samba 2.0.3 (Suse Linux 6.1). Although, we always tried to keep things
simple, we have two subnets, both connected to this one server.
The Server is named Server1. One of
these networks is a 10 MBit coax-cable, the other one is 100 MBit TP.
The networks have IP-numbers 192.168.1.xxx and 192.168.2.xxx. The
Server has two NICs and the IP-numbers 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.2.2.

When I take a look into the network neighbourhood from a client in the
192.168.2.xxx-network, I can always see Server1. When I take a look
into the network neighbourhood from a computer in the
192.168.1.xxx-network,
I can see Server1 only sometimes. A ping to 192.168.1.1 (Server1) always
works. I assigned the shares to network drives on the clients,
and if I reboot the clients, the network drives are still there and I
can read and write on those shares on Server1.
So the clients can obviously transfer data to and from the server. But in
the network neighbourhood, I often can not see Server1.

Does anyone understand this?

Is there a way to change this?

Thank you in advance,

Wolfgang_Albrecht@gmx.de





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Hello.  Are you running a WINS server? Do you have proper entries in your
/etc/hosts file and your lmhosts file on the server? on the clients?

Just some things to look at.


On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 08:21:46AM +1000, Wolfgang Albrecht
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> today I encountered a strange problem. In our office we have a small and
> simple network. On our one and only server, I installed Linux 2.2.5 and
> Samba 2.0.3 (Suse Linux 6.1). Although, we always tried to keep things
> simple, we have two subnets, both connected to this one server.
> The Server is named Server1. One of
> these networks is a 10 MBit coax-cable, the other one is 100 MBit TP.
> The networks have IP-numbers 192.168.1.xxx and 192.168.2.xxx. The
> Server has two NICs and the IP-numbers 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.2.2.
> 
> When I take a look into the network neighbourhood from a client in the
> 192.168.2.xxx-network, I can always see Server1. When I take a look
> into the network neighbourhood from a computer in the
> 192.168.1.xxx-network,
> I can see Server1 only sometimes. A ping to 192.168.1.1 (Server1) always
> works. I assigned the shares to network drives on the clients,
> and if I reboot the clients, the network drives are still there and I
> can read and write on those shares on Server1.
> So the clients can obviously transfer data to and from the server. But in
> the network neighbourhood, I often can not see Server1.

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